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I haven't really been up to blogging and my camera which I completely love is acting up! For some reason it is not focusing correctly! I am not a gadget guru so of course I won't be able to fix! Hmmm maybe I'll give it to my little six year old gadget man! Worth a try he doesn't charge either (:!! Cousin Lexi and Aunt Kerri came through on their way to take Lexi to school and we all went to see Georgie play football! Hayden became the photographer and took a lot of great pictures for us! Since going back to school I have learned from his school journal that he may want to be a photographer if engineering a robot does not work out, but in the mean time he is collecting any junk you have (ugh more clutter for his room) this includes old toasters, empty bottles and cans, etc. Who knows what kind of robot this will be, but hopefully it will be a cleaning cooking robot!
George holding this giant boy! GO GEORGIE!!! George is our cousin and we just love him!

He definitely has the moves! Hayden caught these photos!!

I thought this was so funny of the little boy on the other team!

Looking into Daddy's eyes! Oh and see those cute little ears I keep forgetting to write about us getting her ears pierced. In a prior post I mentioned how Halle really wanted to get her ears pierced. Well Nat (my sis) and me and Halle ended up at the mall, and all of a sudden Halle's ears were pierced! She was so brave and just sat there so still and was so unbelievabley excited! I really would not believe a 3 year old wanted to get their ears pierced if I did not have one that did! She did cry after. I told her it would hurt, but I think she was surprised by the pain after. She was quickly distracted by all the jewelry in the store and quickly got over the pain. It was really fun! Brent on the other hand was not happy about it at all!!! I knew he was against the ear piercing thing, but I didn't really think he was that against it. He thinks ear piercing is for when your 16 or something. Anyways since Halle had her ears pierced Kara then also decided she wanted them pierced. Brent said, "How am I suppose to tell our 7 year old NO when you pierce our 3 year old ears?" So needless to say Me, Halle, Kara, and Aunt Nattie all got to go to the mall and get Kara's ears pierced! I seriously can't believe how much fun it was, and Brent thinks they look cute too!

So here is Halle holding up a huge blurry leaf!! I really hope summer stays a little longer or maybe we can just skip winter! Also my sister Nat made me this cute little Caterpillar chore chart!!!! WE LOVE IT!! You should have her make you one too!(:

Kelton puts together about 4-5 puzzles every day when he gets home from school. I think it is fun that he loves puzzles so much. He came home the other day discussing how he does not get rainbow because the teacher does not see him doing nice things (you get rainbow if you do something great) so I was telling him that actually it is best if no one sees you do nice things because then you have a rainbow in your heart(I won't go into the whole explanation). Kelton then told me, "Mom most kids don't get excited when they get a rainbow in their heart only when it is on paper." Then today Kelton came home with rainbow and was very excited about it. He told me "Mom I got rainbow today! I got a rainbow on my paper and in my heart too mom!"

Halle added a little gel to her hair today!

These pumpkins are growing out of control in my backyard!!! I can't believe it!

These pairs are growing on my trees and they actually taste good!

These apples are also growing in my backyard and taste good too!! I don't know it just is so amazing to me when things just grow like crazy and you can eat them out of your backyard. I have never been one for getting things to grow so I guess I'm surprised that things are growing! The apples and pears have been falling off the trees like crazy which did cause numerous ants to come out of hiding, and we did work all day trying to prune the trees in the backyard (well I guess I should say Brent did, I never last very long at stuff like that, I'd probably end up cutting down the whole tree).

Busy Bodies!

This guy is always just doing things himself. Halle actually said, "Mom get the camera and take a picture of Kelton!" Kelton scales the walls in order to unlock the high bolt I installed to keep him in the house! See how he stands on the crown molding and then leans over and unlocks the top bolt. This particular day I was going a little crazy as the kids wanted to play everywhere except for the designated play areas(aka the playroom and the backyard). Lets see they only wanted to be in the garage or in the front yard which means I have to be present.
Halle came to me and said, "Mom I need to give you a shot, it will only hurt a little bit, but you'll be O.K." I think Halle might actually like getting her blood taken if the nurse wore plastic princess shoes and a Tiara!

A funny things Halle said to me. By the way Halle has a problem with using a very loud voice (that is the nice way of saying she yells a lot). So we have been working on this by well lots of naughty bench time. So her little friend comes to play and I told her little friend if Halle yelled to come tell me, so of course she came and told me, Halle was very apologetic (she did not want to sit on the naughty bench, she thinks it is horrible to sit on a bench in the hall for 3 minutes). So I say somewhere in there that she is a STINKER! Later I am talking to someone and I say, Halle had a friend over today, and Halle chimes in with "and I was a stinker!"

Back TO School!!

Yeah School!! These pictures are in reverse order of what I wanted, but last time I tried to switch them into a cute order I ended up just messing everything up! So forget that! I am on a limited blogging time schedule! We are sad about summer ending, but boy is it nice to get back on a schedule! I get a little sad about how quickly time goes by and how fast they grow! Goodbye to my cute Hayden! Hayden started 4th grade!!!!
Goodbye Kara and Kelton!!! Kara took good care of Kelton on his 1st day of kindergarten. She made sure he got to his class line and was quite the little mother hen. His little cousins Georgie and Reggie also helped our little Kelty.

Hayden making a silly face before he got on the bus! He is growing up so fast!!
This face scared the girls in his class last year, so now he does it all the time!

Sweet Kara started 2nd grade. She wanted a boy back pack this year! Who knows why??

Kelton was very excited to ride the bus and start school. When he got home from school he said I made a new friend today, now I have 4 friends instead of just 3!

Waiting for the bus! Kara giving Kelton the inside scoop to bus riding!

OFF TO SCHOOL!

So today I decided to stay home and make pumpkin cookies and some Zucchini Bread. By the way I don't really like to bake, but I do like to have homemade snacks around for the kiddos. So anyways I started making the cookies and then moved onto the Zucchini Bread. Half way through the Zucchini bread recipe I realize I am actually making Chocolate chip cookies! UGH! The zucchini bread recipe was on the other page. I know it seems dumb, how could I not realize I was making cookies. I was actually thinking "huh, I don't remember the Zucchini bread having 1 cup of butter, and 1 cup of sugar and 1 cup of brown sugar, but I guess it does!" Well I decided to throw some zucchini into the cookies. Well see if the kids like them. So this is why I never get the things done that I want to because I have a scattered brain! Is there a scattered brain disease? If there is I am sure I have it!

Just some pictures..

Here are just some quick little photos that never were posted! I wanted to take pictures of everything we did one day, but that only lasted for about an hour and then I got distracted, we decide to go to the water park and so I never did it. Some of these are from that day! The pictures are all out of order! Kelton decided to get himself some lemonade and yippee the whole picture spilled all over the floor and like a good mom I took a picture, and like a good boy he cried over spilled lemonade!
And like a good girl my little Kara ran to her brothers rescue and cleaned up the lemonade. I did not yell at Kelton, but I did give a long sigh................................... and said K........eeeeeeeeeeelton. I am not one to yell over spilling, but it is a bummer none the less!

Grandma took this one of Kara selling! I know I already posted about our bake sell, but I did not get Kara by herself!!

Grandpa has been practicing football with Hayden! This was Hayden's 1st year of football and so Grandpa has been a huge help!

Hayden made an interception in his 1st game!! He was so stunned he forgot to run!! He is loving football. Thanks Grandpa for helping Hayden with his throwing and catching!! One of the benefits of living close to Grandpa and Grandma(:

Halle wore this baby bonnet on backward all day one day!

Lately Halle has really wanted to go back to her baby days! Maybe she senses my longing to slow down the growing up thing!

Halle got up this morning and got all dressed and came out to run on the treadmill with me! I did not get much of a work out, but she thought it was fun!

Grocery helper!

This is what Halle came down looking like one morning! I swear I did not put her to bed looking like this! Halle has been going to her Great Grandma's house early in the mornings to wake her and help her get all dressed. We even had to take Halle over to find Nanny's pjs as Halle had helped her put them away! She had hung them up in her closet, but had put them on the lower rack! I thought it was so cute how she had hung them and just put them away for her!

Hayden went corn picking with George and Reggie and Grandma and Grandpa! They had lots of fun and the best part was Grandma and Grandpa cooked, and bagged it for us! Yeah now we have fresh corn all winter long!!

Grandma took this of Halle and called her the Corn picker Fairy Godmother! A very fitting name! This girl goes through I don't know 6 outfits a day and she is unbelievable in heals!!

POPSICLES 25cents SELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My kids want to have a lemonade stand every day, but it is just not very fun when you don't sell anything, so we decided to sell Popsicles and some homemade brownies too! I think the kids selling have eaten most of the Popsicles!

Kelton's little friend told Kara she should charge 50 cents for the Popsicles, but she told him they would not sell any if they charged that much! I thought they were funny discussing prices and profit margins.

They also decided it is only fun when you have customers! They road the neighborhood eliciting business. They were a little discouraged by all the no thank yous! Yesterday was a better day even though today they had a better inventory!

The chaos of my home! Lets see today I have 9 kids playing at my house! I guess that is not too bad! My floors need some serious mopping for the second time today(well the 1st time was not very good as I just have been walking around with wet wipes on my feet, don't want to give the wrong impression). I have placed wet wipes by the doors to cut down on the dirt(: I have been trying to invent something creative for feet wiping, but maybe I'm the only one who's kids run around with bare feet and then need some serious wiping before they enter the house! O.K. back to the ice cream sell. Now you know how my brain function is (scattered)!!!

We put some music outside to entice customers, you know ice cream truck music!

My little dancing girl! This girl never stops dancing and singing! At this very moment she is singing at the top of her lungs!!

So lets see maybe I will mow the lawn during the Popsicle sell, yesterday I got my garage cleaned out during the Popsicle sell(: I always have a huge list of things I want to get done and am very ambitious at the beginning of the day, but by the end of the day I just start staring and saying sure, yeah, whatever you want as long as you get it yourself(:

Oh and by the way for all you women that have husbands that snore I now have great sympathy for you! Brent has been sick the past week and has been snoring like a freight train is coming through our room, needless to say I have gotten little sleep!

Kelton 18 months

Sometimes it is fun to go down memory lane. I can't believe how big my little boy has gotten. I do miss that tiny little snugly boy. I wish sometimes I could go back and kiss that baby face one more time.

HAPPY 6th BIRTHDAY KELTON!

Kelton just invited a few little friends over for some fun on his Birthday. He decided he wanted to have a penguin party at the last moment, so we colored penguins and made little penguins. Kelton was King Penguin. It is funny how you make a party a penguin party by just saying Penguin in front of every game or thing you do!

Then we played about every party game you can think of! You can get through lots of games when you have such a small group! I think the high light was when during London Bridges Falling Down I accidentally sprayed myself in the face. The kids thought the was hilarious!

I thought they would swim longer, but they were so excited about the pinata that they did not last long in the pool!

Here is the whole group with all the presents. Thank goodness Dad came home about an hour before the party ended and livened the party up with a little music. I should have started the music a long time ago. I can't believe how much more fun it is with a little music!

Yummy!

No playing with fire Kelton!

Kelton wanted an Oreo cookie Ice cream cake! I was so glad I didn't have to try and make a penguin cake!

Kelton is my shy guy and even hid from us the morning of his Birthday because he was embarrassed when we would tell him Happy Birthday!

I asked Kelton "How does it feel to be 6 years old?" He replied, "It feels just like 5!"

Everyone, but Grandpa is excited about the gift(:

The family party! I really did not want to be in the picture, you know when you have those days when your thinking lets definitely make this a no picture day, maybe no one else feels that way, I'll blame it on hormones(:

Kelton was very excited about his birthday! I am going to try to find this cute little video I have of him when he was little. He is growing up so quickly! I really wish I could stop time for a while. I do love all my squeezes and loves that Kelton gives. Halle told me "Kelton is squeezing my arm again!" I told her she was lucky, because Kelton squeezes you when he really loves you! He does little intense squeezes on your arm when he really likes you. I love them. I hope he never stops.

I'm having one of those bummer weeks so I feel kind of bad posting this during one of those weeks when I feel like chicken little running around saying "the sky is falling!" Hopefully my mood is not coming across in this post, but if next week I read this and it is a downer I'll make it up to you Kelton!!(:

Camo Belts!

One of there goals in January was to get there Camo Belts by the end of the Summer! Good Job Kara and Kelton! They have worked so hard to get to Camo!! The Camo belts is one of the cooler looking Belts!
Kara's kicks have improved so much! If she happened to end up sleeping by you, well watch out because during the night those legs of hers lay down some nasty kicks! Brent and I have bruises to prove it!

Halle had to get in on the action! Hayden took the pictures. Kelton has gotten a lot better at doing his best and forgetting the rest! If Kelton had one super power it would be invisibility!

Hello Spokane, Washington! Goodbye boat!

We took a very fast trip to Spokane well actually Banks Lake to deliver our boat to my oldest sister Kerri and her family. They bought our boat! The kids cried a little over the selling of the boat. I told them they had 10 minutes to cry over the boat and then they had to get over it(: This of course caused them to stop whining and crying. I don't know I guess when someone tells you to go ahead and cry about it you just don't really feel like it anymore!! Now I wish I had some pictures of us with my sister Kerri and her family, but I just got so busy there was no time for pictures!!

My brother Tyson is going to Law School in Spokane and let us stay with him, which was really nice, especially since they were not even home. He flew home the next day and we picked him up from the airport and then he showed us around the city of Spokane!! We did miss seeing his wife, Heather and their adorable little boy Brody as they were still in Utah!
Hayden was really sick the entire trip. I felt so bad for him. Here he is at Red Robin feeling absolutely miserable. We found out he had Strep throat and a bad case of some respiratory virus when we got home.

This is a waterfall with in the city of Spokane. Originally I had told Halle and Kelton to look for some waterfalls on our trip, but there were not any along the way(I was thinking of the drive to Olympia which is a beautiful drive). So this had to appease them.

Downtown Spokane has a beautiful park and an unbelievably fast Merry-Go-Round! The kids thought it was great!


It is a very pretty park! Kara, Halle, and Kelton playing on the blocks! We drug our kids all over the place. They were good sports. I did feel bad about all the driving they endured for our quick little jaunt!


Halle and Uncle Tyson! What a great brother I have!! Actually all my brothers are great!

Loved this slide!

Hayden even took a little ride down the slide after the Motrin and Tylenol kicked in a little bit!

Halle with the waterfall in the back ground. My sister decided to buy our boat on Saturday and so we jumped in our car on Sunday (which is amazing since it usually takes me an entire day to pack everything). We headed out at about noon and did not arrive until 9pm in Spokane. Just so you get a little taste of how the trip started and why the trip took sooooo long I will give you the details of our 1st stop. We had not even made it to the freeway and Brent decides to run into the gas station and get a few treat for traveling. He runs in and takes forever. Finally coming out with loads of sugary treats (gag, ex. he got Kelton orange soda and skittles, It actually makes me sick to write about it), then he says does anyone need to go to the bathroom??? Everyone yells yes except Halle. So they all go in to the bathroom (remember we just left the house 15 minutes ago where they all used the restroom). They all come out of the bathroom and buckle in and Halle chimes in with "I have to go poo poo" so we go back in to the bathroom where Halle goes to the bathroom(3 times and has to look at the jewelry on the way out too). Finally we are on the road, we continued to make stops like this all the way. We finally arrived in Spokane & spent the night at my brothers. Then drove the boat 2 hour to Banks Lake. We spent about an hour there and then turned aroung and drove 2 hours back to Spokane. We then spent a little time with Tyson and then headed back to Idaho. We only made it to Kennewick where we had to get a hotel room as we were too tired to keep driving. I have to admit it was pretty fun even though when I think about some of the details it should have made me think it was absolutely horrific!!